Jordan R. Fischbach

Biography

Jordan Fischbach is an associate policy researcher at RAND and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He has worked as a policy researcher and consultant focused on water resources and infrastructure planning, climate change adaptation, and environmental policy since 2001. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Managing New Orleans Flood Risk in an Uncertain Future Using Non-Structural Risk Mitigation," applied quantitative scenario planning methods such as Robust Decision Making to the challenge of reducing uncertain flood risk in New Orleans over the next fifty years. Fischbach has also worked extensively with RAND Gulf States Policy Institute researchers to consider the effects of climate change on the Louisiana Coast and provide planning support to the State of Louisiana. Other recent areas of focus include incorporating climate change uncertainty into long-term Colorado River management and U.S. Army science and technology planning. Prior to joining RAND, he worked as an analyst at The Cadmus Group, Inc.